Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9acac59425fe7836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 17:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ef7e41a9012bc72a7263fbb2f0047b09 SHA-1: 9466505e379f739f6e86e169f3ee3f42eadf0287 SHA-256: 9acac59425fe7836828d4e820aded9b6c8e07252948823292e2121b402abbe43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external websites. Several of these URLs point to domains that appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dead+target+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://tradingcall.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rusaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/63351277257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxakosivatokejitelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12646544726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613efd0eb7022---vutotepodabazuzamufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58725768343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021091623173446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/25867913682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e8554b8ed---bezovavejoregikajodeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85063143656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/94173760772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimujule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56428211058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/89884774336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hcivn98q0q90e0io40pdoa4s6/88755362173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13978826980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/tedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ocptecnology.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/safipovukukotudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/15952131579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalba.net/other_files/File/terurugunevojegumanazawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB148 17340 bytes
SHA-256: b118b5c54505fe91ccaa9e6de6b91d9e593c2dee9c1b3cd7ed2a6d15f15be563
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD84 10356 bytes
SHA-256: a304623f43b980932e42f3c22154293435f344b850936bf7f87a41f6fcb9a727
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1